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  1. Re:Oh yeah on Cub Scouts To Offer Merit Pin For Video Gaming · · Score: 1

    I remember my friend telling me about the AT-4 and its included instructions. Check out the label on the front of the launcher. Not quite "this end to enemy," but it's close.

  2. Re:water switching... on High Fructose Corn Syrup Causes Bigger Weight Gain In Rats · · Score: 1

    I've heard that LA's supposed to have really good tap water, but honestly, if the best tap water is here, I really wonder how bad it is elsewhere. Without the filter, there's a definite chemical-y chlorine taste.

  3. Re:water switching... on High Fructose Corn Syrup Causes Bigger Weight Gain In Rats · · Score: 1

    Not so sure about your "no chemicals" claim, but that's probably because I live in the City of Los Angeles, and tap water is nigh undrinkable. I did an abrupt switch from soda/coffee to water, but I had to get a water filter in order to tolerate the taste.

  4. Re:I'm just waiting on this .info thing to peak on Dot-Com Craze Peaked 10 Years Ago This Week · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just for your information, Proud Domains is using Wild West Domains, a sister company of GoDaddy, to register and manage your domains. Granted, the support you're getting is likely from people employed by or running Proud, but the actual product is still a GoDaddy-managed item. IAAWWDR (Wild West Domains Reseller)

  5. Re:Adobe.. on New Crossover Release With Improved Compatibility · · Score: 1

    No, I haven't worked with any files in CS3 over 1GB in size. However, I do regularly work with TIFF files in the 300-600MB range in Photoshop 6.0, but I'm also not a print designer, by trade.

    The biggest speed issue, I think, has mostly to do with disk I/O in the VM. There is a hit to that, and the more you have to do on the scratch disk or swap, the slower it will be.

    For web design and general photography, I find working in a VM is adequate.

  6. Re:Adobe.. on New Crossover Release With Improved Compatibility · · Score: 1

    I've run both Photoshop 6.0, Photoshop CS 3, and Lightroom in a VM running Windows XP. They work very well, given that the VM has enough memory allocated to do its job, and that the memory must not be swapped to disk by the VM host.

    (I'm a VMware Workstation user--versions 6 and 7.)

  7. Bad Drivers, Worse Pilots on NASA Designs All-Electric Personal Flight Vehicle · · Score: 1

    While I think the idea for the aircraft is spiffy, I'm not sure I like the undertones of "people will commute to work with this 'personal flight vehicle'." There are a lot of bad drivers out there, and I wouldn't want to encounter them while they're flying their PFV and talking on their cellphone.

  8. Maps? on Bing To Become Default iPhone Search? · · Score: 1

    Will Apple ditch Google Maps in favor of Microsoft's offering as well, or is really just an addition to the list of search providers in Safari?

  9. Re:Didn't see that one coming.... on Disney Releases 3D Texture Mapper Source Code · · Score: 1

    Yep... Pretty big brain fart there, now permanently stuck in the interwebs for all perpetuity.

    Indeed, Money = Work / Knowledge

  10. Re:Didn't see that one coming.... on Disney Releases 3D Texture Mapper Source Code · · Score: 1

    Offtopic, but your sig is wrong. Money would be equal to Work multiplied by Knowledge.

    Knowledge = Power
    Time = Money
    Power = Work / Time
    -OR-
    Power = Work / Money
    -OR-
    Knowledge = Work / Money

    Solve for Money:

    Knowledge = Work / Money

    # Multiply both sides by Work
    Work * Knowledge = Work / Money * Work

    # Work / Money * Work = Money, so:
    Work * Knowledge = Money
    -OR-
    Money = Work * Knowledge

  11. Re:I beg to differ on MIT Project "Gaydar" Shakes Privacy Assumptions · · Score: 1

    Actually, they're quite easy to make. Kipkay made a pair of glasses that do just that. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_LzSfy6tDQ

  12. Are users the customer or the product? on Security / Privacy Advice? · · Score: 1

    One thing that a lot of people don't think about when discussing privacy, especially in social networking, is the topic of who the customer truly is. With free services online, the true customer is almost always the advertisers, and the product being sold is usually user information. http://www.weourfamily.com/blog/who_is_the_customer.jsp

  13. Re:Tape on Volunteers Recover Lunar Orbiter 1 Photographs · · Score: 1

    Though it's presented as a bit of a joke, PaperBack might be something that could handle this.

  14. Re:*Cough* on Locating the Real MySQL · · Score: 2, Informative

    The real moral of the story is to use the proper collations where necessary. Migrating from a case-insensitive to a case-sensitive collation was the real problem. Also, indexing with the right collation is no problem.

  15. Re:Just using VIM on (Useful) Stupid Vim Tricks? · · Score: 1

    There may be a hill or valley in between home (or some other starting point) and school.

  16. Re:Will Apple have to raise salaries? on The Impact of Low Salaries At Apple · · Score: 2, Informative

    The iPhone does have a removable SIM card in the top of the device...

  17. Re:Parity on McCain Supports Warrantless Domestic Surveillance · · Score: 1

    But in America, each person currently has the liberty to not make "liberty" their agenda.

  18. Re:What about Google Earth? on In-Depth With Qt 4.4 · · Score: 4, Informative

    It was Keyhole's engineers that made that decision, not Google's.

  19. Now we can prove the existance of Graboids! on Quake-Catcher Aims to be Largest Distributed Seismometer Network · · Score: 1

    Seriously, did no one think of the Tremors series while reading this?

  20. Re:Laptop by the anti-Steve on Two Videos of E-Lead's Noahpad in Action · · Score: 1

    The Adam was at least usable, you insensitive clod!

  21. Re:Well on June Will Be Month of Search Engine Bugs · · Score: 1

    Actually, you should search for site:com...

  22. Re:OK, that does it! on FDA Considers Redefining Chocolate · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean a chocolate dream?

  23. Re: Indeed on Roomba + Wii remote + Perl = Awesome · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Perl is no more difficult to maintain than any other language.

    Bad code is bad code, and bad code is difficult to maintain. Good code is good code and is generally maintainable.

    Writing good code in Perl, just like any other language, is left up to the programmer.

    (And, I know of more than a few large, well-maintained systems written in Perl.)

  24. Re:Just one feature on A look at Thunderbird 2.0 Beta · · Score: 1

    I believe that's what the tagging feature would be useful for...

  25. Re:Aren't KVM switches obsolete legacy tech on Linux Kernel to Include KVM Virtualization · · Score: 1

    Answer: Windows.

    There are some things you just can't do in terminal services that you must do on the console. Also, each of those remote solutions require two things: bandwidth and a listening port. While bandwidth on a LAN might not be a big deal, a listening port for that remote application can be a big vulnerability if it's not locked down properly.

    Don't knock the KVM switch. It's still pretty applicable to today's technology.